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Daily del.icio.us for June 29th
Sun Bundles MySQL Database, GlassFish App Server — Sun Microsystems — InformationWeek - In one of the first results of its $1 billion purchase of MySQL, Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) has packaged the popular open source database with its GlassFish application server and is offering the two as a $65,000-per-year bundle. InfoQ: Mark Little on Transactions, Web Services and REST - In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web servi ScreenSteps: Rapid Documentation Tool - ScreenSteps takes the drudgery out of creating visual, step-by-step software tutorials/guides. With ScreenSteps you can communicate software instructions clearly and quickly. Vespa: A better MVC » Semicolon - Vespa is a refinement of the old MVC (Model View Controller) architectural pattern that better reflects how Web applications actually work. I have refined the basic MVC pattern in light of typical usage patterns I’ve encountered Featured Windows Download: iSpring Converts PowerPoint Presentations to Flash Video - Freeware PowerPoint plug-in iSpring converts your PowerPoint presentation to an interactive Flash video with the click of a button. The exported movie even preserves all of your slide transitions, animations, and hyperlinks Google Code Blog: OAuth Available for Google Data APIs - We love open standards, and we've just added support for a new one: OAuth is now supported on all of the APIs. OAuth is an open standard for authentication that allows applications to authenticate users without ever directly handling usernames/passwords InfoQ: Kilim - actors and message passing in Java - Kilim is a message-passing framework for Java that claims provides ultra-lightweight threads and facilities for fast, safe, zero-copy messaging between these threads. Andrew Peters' Blog » Blog Archive » My Language of the Year - Erlang is important because it combines both functional and concurrency-oriented programming models in a very powerful way. Specifically, it turns out that the Erlang approach is ideal for harnessing the power of multi-core CPUs. dragtable - Drag and drop HTML table headers to reorder columns using a simple interface similar to sorttable. - Once you include this script, you can give an HTML table drag-and-drop reorderable columns by setting "class=draggable". dragtable can be combined with sorttable by setting 'class="draggable sortable"', thus producing highly interactive HTML tables
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Daily del.icio.us for June 6th through June 10th
Databinder - Toolkit overview - Databinder is a Java programming toolkit for data–driven Web applications. It’s based upon the Wicket Web component framework and Hibernate object-relational mapping service. The Future of BPM at BEA/Oracle | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog - It is possible that Oracle could adopt an IBM-like strategy and keep both threads alive until things sort out, using ALBPM on top of Fusion as the straight BPMS offering, and the current ARIS+SOA Suite to support the apps business. In some ways that's the Microsoft Silverlight to back Ruby, Python in browser | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-06 | By Paul Krill - Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of RIAs that leverages Silverlight browser plug-in. The intent is to let developers continue using these languages on the client side without having to also in Sun bolsters SOA software with data management | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-08 | By Paul Krill - Sun Microsystems is updating its SOA and business integration software Monday, adding a data management option and leveraging enterprise service bus capabilities based around the JBI (Java Business Integration) specification. Free Personal Finance Software, Money Management, Budget Planner and Tools, Online Financial Planning - Mint.com - Free Personal Finance Software, Money Management, Budget Planner and Tools, Online Financial Planning - Mint.com Json-lib 2.2.2 released - JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java. Google's GWT continues to amaze and delight - If you have checked out GWT then I urge you to give it a whirl, you will never look at another framework in the same way again. eXo Platform (Enterprise WebOS) » Blog Archive » eXo Platform: The Open Source alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint - With the launch of eXo WebOS flagship product as the new type of Enterprise Portals and all its incoming optional modules such as eXo Enterprise Content Managment (eXo ECM) and eXo Collaboration Suite (eXo CS), we have been able to build the only true alt The 3G iPhone: First Impressions | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsD - Less than one year after it was introduced at a hefty $599 price, the 8 GB model of the iPhone will now be two-thirds cheaper, at just $199. Atlassian Developer Blog - Story Cards - Here at Atlassian, we like our agile methodologies. We like our pair programming. And we definitely like our story cards. Some people think story cards are old school, and that all this "agile" stuff is slight-of-hand. This video proves them … right. LinkedIn - A Professional Network built with Java Technologies and Agile Practices - Learn how Java™ and agile practices are employed in building large-scale consumer internet sites like LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network. Blogging Roller: LinkedIn: 99% Pure Java - Nick Lothian tweeted about this JavaOne presentation on LinkedIn. What's particularly interesting to me are the diagrams that explain how the LinkedIn architecture has evolved to scale up to 22 million users
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Daily del.icio.us for June 1st through June 4th
Firefox 3 for developers - MDC - If you're a developer trying to get a handle on all the new features in Firefox 3, this is the perfect place to start. This article provides a list of the new articles covering features added to Firefox 3 InfoQ: Is Google Gears Positioned to Add Features to the Web? - There is no doubt that Rich Internet Applications remain a major battleground for the industry along with and complementary to Ad-based revenue models and cloud-computing. Will Gears take a similar path as Flash and become as much adopted by Web sites and Use Flex Builder 3 to create a JavaScript AIR application - I have tried today to create an AIR application. My tool of choice was Flex Builder 3 as I knew you can create AIR applications using it. Official Google Blog: At long last, real-time stock quotes are here - We're very excited to tell you that real-time quotes on NASDAQ securities are now available on Google Finance. This is an important (and way overdue) development for everyone who consumes financial information. InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world - How do you program a multicore computer? Easy - do it in Erlang. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed for programming fault-tolerant systems. With share-nothing semantics and pure message passing, Erlang programs scales on multi Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library - Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics: DBSight: Instant Scalable Full-text database search platform/engine - Instead of weeks or even months to develop a full-text search for your data, if you know how to use DBSight, you can easily create the full-text search literally in minutes. Brain Freeze » Storing JasperReports in a database using iBATIS and Oracle 10g - This article shows how I solved the file system issue by storing JasperReports report definitions in a database. I’ll assume familiarity with the iBATIS “ORM” database framework since I am not showing a full iBATIS setup here. JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov on IntelliJ 8, Flex, and Scala - Dmitry Jemerov is a lead developer on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA. In this wide-ranging interview with Artima, Jemerov discusses the main focus areas for the upcoming IntelliJ 8 release, as well as his views on IntelliJ's support for Flex and Scala. » HOW TO: Use JDBC Batching for 7-8X throughput gains - Using the batched statement capability of your JDBC driver can give you 7-8X throughput gains. Not only is batching significantly faster, it’ll save database CPU cycles and be easier on the network, too Why Java? Because it's everywhere. - The value of this enterprise capabilities is still very high, and in my opinion, it is one of the most important differentiators of Java. Once you know how to deal with it, it saves you lots of time in development and production. Roku's Netflix Player sells out | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - There's more proof that the Netflix Player is a hit. Start-up Roku, the company behind the device that enables Netflix subscribers to watch movies streamed from the Internet to their TVs, has run out of inventory two weeks after launching. InfoQ: Exadel’s Flamingo Project for Rapid Flex and Java Development - Exadel’s Flamingo project is a tool for bootstrapping RIA applications built with Java backends. The tool offers support for both Seam and Spring in the middle tier. On the presentation tier, Flamingo supports both Flex and JavaFX
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Daily del.icio.us for May 29th through May 31st
A Look Inside JBoss Rules | Javalobby - JBoss Rules is the production release of the Drools project, an expert system for declarative programming based around the Rete algorithm. During this talk, Mark Proctor, the lead on JBoss Rules covered the Drools basics, as well as the new features in 4. The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time : Rolling Stone - This is what makes a great rock & roll guitar sound: an irresistible riff; a solo or jam that takes you higher every time you hear it; the final power chord that pins you to the wall and makes you hit "play" again and again. The Business Of IT: Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies - The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years David Card - No Way to Build an Operating System - MSFT has worked on WinFS for more than a decade without success in making it fast, reliable, and easy-to-use enough for release. The Longhorn "reset" in 2004 was in large part the realization that WinFS was still not ready for primetime. My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage - IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. Oracle and BEA - Welcome, Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch Members - The Oracle Technology Network is happy to welcome members of the BEA Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch communities. The OTN team, which now includes some of the very same people behind those BEA communities, is hard at work merging the best of Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch Ozzie: Open source is greatest threat to Microsoft | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - Ozzie, speaking at Sanford C. Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York on Wednesday, said that while Google is a "tremendously strong competitor…open source was much more potentially disruptive" to Microsoft's business model. Ben Northrop - Does Programming to Interfaces Buy Us Anything? - In the end, I'm not saying that programming to interfaces and not implementations isn't a good thing, just that it's a good thing less often than we think - in other words, it can't just be dogmatically applied. O'Reilly Media | Harnessing Hibernate - More than a reference, Harnessing Hibernate starts with basic configuration before moving on to demonstrate how to use Hibernate to accomplish practical goals. "If you follow along with the examples–which is easy–you'll have a working Hibernate-based pr InfoQ: Top 5 Ways to Reduce Flex Application Startup Time - Jun Heider has an excellent piece on O’Reilly’s InsideRIA site discussing a number of the options for minimizing the startup time of Flex applications, in hopes of helping developers reduce the amount of time that users see the ugly "Loading" dialog. Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report | CenterNetworks - Akamai is out today with their first "State of the Internet" report. The report is well worth a read as it covers a variety of topics including: security, connection speeds, geography, network access, and Internet penetration.
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Daily del.icio.us for May 25th through May 28th
Nick Bradbury: Hospitals Are No Place for Sick People - My father is a wealthy, well-connected, fully-insured, brilliant man, and this all took place at what is supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the country. If the healthcare system failed him, it will fail the rest of us, too. The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Erlang By Example - Learn how to write Erlang programs by sitting next to an experienced Erlang programmer as he builds an application from the ground up. In these screencasts, Kevin Smith incrementally builds a distributed chat system using Erlang Ext JS - Use Namespaces to organize your JavaScript code - Using namespaces will ensure your JavaScript code is safe from other code overwriting it in the global namespace. YUI 2.5.2 Released: Bug Fixes and Support for Upcoming Firefox and Opera Releases » Yahoo! User Interface Blog - The YUI development team released version 2.5.2 today; you can download the new release from SourceForge or configure your implementation using the YUI Configurator. This is a focused release that addresses several key bugs while providing support for Fir Ten Books on Investing Recommended by Warren Buffett | Business Pundit - Over the years, Warren Buffett has recommended many books in a variety of venues about a variety of subjects. Continuing our ongoing series of books recommended by Buffett, here we highlight ten books that Buffett has recommended on investing. .htaccess Tutorials, htaccess Examples, Sample .htaccess Files - This is the index of my favorite apache HTTP (htaccess, mod_rewrite, httpd.conf) examples, solutions, ideas, htaccess tips, apache tricks and .htaccess sample files AJAX Libraries API - Google Code - The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libs. By using the Google AJAX API, your application has high speed, globaly available access to JavaScript open source libraries Google to preach Web 2.0 gospel to developers | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - Lighting a fire under Web 2.0 - App Engine and Gears together are centerpieces of Google's attempt to bring the Web alive, and we can expect some action there at the conference, too. Ext JS Ext.ux.Wiz (Wizardcomponent) - Ext.ux.Wiz is a user extension that helps you setting up wizards for your Ext JS project easily.
Guide your users through a set of cards, collecting needed informations, an only let them pass through if each and every submitted value validates against the Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : CSS Menu Writer debuts - Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs.
Tags: accessibility, administration, ajax, apache, api, appengine, architecture, books, caching, CDN, cms, code, component, css, development, dreamweaver, economics, erlang, extjs, finance, financial, gears, google, healthcare, hospitals, howto, htaccess, investing, javascript, jquery, library, medicine, menus, money, offline, programming, prototype, screencast, standards, survey, sysadmin, tutorial, video, web, Web2.0, webdesign, yahoo, yuiGuide your users through a set of cards, collecting needed informations, an only let them pass through if each and every submitted value validates against the Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : CSS Menu Writer debuts - Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs.
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Daily del.icio.us for May 20th through May 24th
Computing | Down on the server farm | Economist.com - One day soon, these “virtual machines” may migrate to wherever computing power is cheapest, or energy is greenest. Then computing will have become a true utility—and it will no longer be apt to talk of computing clouds, so much as of a computing atm InfoQ: Integrate Flex with Spring Framework - A key to project success is creating an architecture that new developers can rapidly integrate themselves into and begin to be productive on day 1. Flex with Spring, iBATIS, & Cairngorm help me to quickly produce a patterned- based, repeatable architectur New Adventures in Software » Visual SourceSafe: A Public Service Announcement - “Visual SourceSafe? It would be safer to print out all your code, run it through a shredder, and set it on fire.” - (Attributed to an unidentified Microsoft employee). SSIS Junkie : SSIS: Suggested Best Practices and naming conventions - I thought it would be worth publishing a list of guidelines that I see as SSIS development best practices. These are my own opinions and are based upon my experience of using SSIS over the past 18 months. I am not saying you should take them as gospel but IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Neal Ford Advises on Boosting Developer’s Productivity - Neal tells you how you can become more accustomed with the shortcuts, get used to using them in the daily routine, and demonstrates the magic of different key combinations while coding with IntelliJ IDEA. Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture - Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency's sake, Twitter was built with technologies and practices that are more appropriate to a content management system Enterprise Java Community: Extending Spring LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper - This article explains how to extend Spring-LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper to access LDAP data through intuitive JavaBean operations. About - XML Hammer - The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation. Novell, Red Hat upgrade Linux offerings - LinuxWorld - Novell released SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2), while Red Hat shipped Version 5.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both vendors added improvements on the desktop and the server. There were many areas of overlap, especially with virtualization. JasperReports: 3.0.0 released - JasperReports, the market leading open source business intelligence and reporting engine. This project is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. This project is the home for all things Jasper, Reports, Analysis, Server, and Intelligence.
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Daily del.icio.us for May 16th through May 18th
Google Doctype - Documenting the Open Web - Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library Testability Explorer - TestabilityExplorer.org records the testability scores for many open source and commercial Java libraries. The compiled bytecode for the library is analyzed and metrics are calculated for the testability of individual classes. Those classes fall into one Brandon Werner » Blog Archive » ACM Article: How Intuitive is Object Oriented Design? - There is an incredible article that was published in the Communications of the ACM entitled “How Intuitive is Object Oriented Design?” by Irit Hadar from the University of Haifa, Israel and Uri Leron from the Israeli Institute of Technology. It goes t cloudtools - Google Code - Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Wind power, alternative energy | Salon News - A stunning new report just issued by the Bush administration finds that for under 2 cents a day per household, Americans could get 300 gigawatts of wind by 2030 which would reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation by 25 percent in 2030. InfoQ: Getting Started with Grails - In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Jason Rudolph gives an overview and demonstration of Grails. Topics covered include Java/Grails integration, Grails plugins, creating a complete Grails sample application from scratch, the structure of a Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - 11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation - 11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation peterpascale.com » TeamCity Lessons Learned (Build Trophy For Sale) - In honor of four months of successful TeamCity usage - I offer this set of TeamCity lessons learned: SpringSource Team Blog » Why should I care about OSGi anyway? - Michael Burke asked a great question on that thread which can be paraphrased as "forgetting the hype surrounding OSGi, what benefits can I expect to see if I port an application currently packaged as an EAR to OSGi bundles? Linux On A Stick: Fedora 9 Puts Your Desktop on a USB Drive - This week's release of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don't need Linux installed to create it, you can leave the data on your thumb drive untouched,
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Daily del.icio.us for May 8th through May 12th
Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - Am I being “age-ist”? Probably. But the world is a pretty complicated place right now and I’m thinking that it’s not such a great time to elect our oldest President ever. So sue me. If we hired like we vote - If we hired like we vote Hillary Clinton’s suicidal gamble with race poison | Andrew Sullivan - Times Online - But in that venture the Clintons are destroying themselves and their legacy and their capacity to bridge the very gaps they now must widen to stay in the race. It is a Clinton tragedy – and one that most Americans seem slowly, cautiously but palpably de InfoQ: Mocking Web Services - A new tutorial by Upul Godage describes how to use Apache Synapse to mock web services for development and testing. Apache Synapse is a simple, lightweight, high-performance enterprise service bus (ESB). Apache Synapse can be used to filter, transform, ro Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: Death by Scheduling - The moral of the story is that if perception is reality, then the best way to manage perception is to make up stuff that you can honestly remember. InfoQ: The State of Enterprise Architecture - As organizations continue to grow their IT investments (bought, borrowed, or built) and concepts like Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) become more common, the role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become more co Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet - GigaOM - So all you agile programmers working on Ruby-on-Rails, Python and AJAX, pay attention: If you want more people to think your application loads faster than Google, learn about your host. It’s called the Internet John Ferguson Smart's Blog: JavaOne 2008 - FindBugs is a great little tool, and it just keeps getting better! - FingBugs uses more sophisticated analysis techniques than tools like PMD and Checkstyle, working at the bytecode level rather than with the source code, and is more focused on finding the most high priority and potentially dangerous issues. Pictures from JavaOne 2008 - Arun Gupta's Weblog - Take 11 - Pictures from JavaOne 2008. Continuing from Take 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and more pictures from JavaOne 2008. Google Web Security for Enterprise - Google Web Security for Enterprise service, powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable your computers. All web requests are scanned in real-time, rather than solely relying on stat
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Daily del.icio.us for May 4th through May 7th
People Over Process » A Roadmap for JavaFX - Adobe’s Beat Them By a Week, But So What? - JavaOne 2008 - The fact that Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and others are all racing towards the same end should be encouraging, not frustrating. Getting preempted by a week with, basically, the same sort of announcement is meaningless in the grand scheme of things JavaFX’s day in the Sun | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com - JavaFX has a LONG way to go especially when you look at Adobe’s RIA strengths and Microsoft’s very enthusiastic entry into the space. But I think JavaFX will be a breath of fresh air for people and will help in expanding the RIA footprint further Java platform to get modularity, OSGi support | InfoWorld | News | 2008-05-07 | By Paul Krill - Upcoming versions of the Java platform will be fitted with capabilities such as flexibility, OSGi support, and modularity, Sun Microsystems officials said Tuesday afternoon at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Dell Expands Virtualization Offerings - Dell is adding to its virtualization portfolio by embedding Citrix XenServer into its hardware and expanding its services for customers investing in the technology. Andy Kessler: WSJ: The War for the Web - The continuing battle between Microsoft and Google will mean fierce competition – adding features, building data centers, cutting deals and spending money on speed and customer convenience Archiva - The Build Artifact Repository Manager - Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT. JavaOne 2008: Day One (So Far) - JavaOne 2008 Day One has started, of course, and it's an interesting show, with a lot of undercurrents about JavaFX (as expected) and multimedia - and mobile applications. There's a lot more, of course, and this thread is meant for people to add comments The day the music died [dive into mark] - This is a letter I sent to my father to explain what it means that Microsoft is pulling support for MSN Music. Tech issues like this often bubble up into the media that he reads, but they are rarely explained well. My father assumes I have an opinion on s Amazon Now Serving OpenSolaris on EC2 - GigaOM - Sun’s OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now. Sun will provide premium technical support for MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2. Julien Lecomte’s Blog » JavaScript: The Good Parts - In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Douglas extensively describes that good subset of the JavaScript language, occasionally warning to avoid the bad. I consider Douglas’ book a must-buy for anybody who’s serious about developing professional apps for the w
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Daily del.icio.us for April 28th through May 2nd
Use XQuery from a Java environment - XML data format can be hard to search, but with the fairly recent introduction of the XQuery API, XML searches are now flexible and easy to perform. For Java programmers who work with XML documents using SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and more, the XQuery API for Pragmatic Caching - a simple Cache Configuration Model for Spring « brain driven development - We’ve come up with a very pragmatic solution with a declarative style for cache configuration and a more programmatic style for handling caching behaviour. As always, the usefulness of such a solution depends on the given problem space and the surroundi Will open source save Sun? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - Another question for Sun will revolve around how much open-source software will be required to move the hardware and services needle. MySQL, with more than 70 million downloads, is a good candidate to jump-start movement in hardware and services. Will it InfoQ: SpringSource Launches New Application Server without Java EE - The SpringSource Application Platform has been designed from the ground up to instead focus directly on supporting the widely used Spring Portfolio of open source projects. Specifically, the application server builds on the Spring Portfolio programming mo SpringSource - SpringSource Application Platform - SpringSource Application Platform is a completely module-based Java application server that is designed to run enterprise Java applications and Spring-powered applications based on Spring, Apache Tomcat and OSGi-based technologies Adobe opens up Flash, but leaves out Google and Apple | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com - In a well timed move today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project and lifted restrictions on the use of Flash related specifications. The initiative is supported by several industry leaders including ARM, Intel, LG, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails - We’re hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java Google's Eric Schmidt - Exclusive Interview - All * Technology * News * Story - CNBC.com - CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with Google CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt Tuesday at the Milken Conference in Los Angeles to discuss Google's growth and U.S. slowdown, the possibility of a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo!, online advertising growth rates, Google's Ext JS - Ext GWT v1.0 Beta 2 Released - Ext JS is pleased to announce the Ext GWT 1.0 beta2 release. This release includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes since the beta1 release and is a recommended upgrade for those using beta 1. Automation for the people: Hands-off load testing - Load testing is often relegated to late-cycle activities, but it doesn't need to be that way. In this installment of Automation for the people , automation expert Paul Duvall describes how you can discover and fix problems throughout the development cycle
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